Episode 55 - Project Xanadu
Advent of Computing
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Computer Lib Slash Dream Machines - A Weird Book
Nelson's magnum opus computer lib slash dream machines. Published in 19 64, it shows how zanidu was changing something even more prophetic. Nelson called it a magazine layout, but that makes it sound like neat columns with glossy print photos every page has some variable number of columns. A single page may have a section with two columns, then break and another section with three. Or any premutation or mix thereof some chunks of text are rotated at odd angles. Just say the type setting is complicated.
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